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Pearl Buck: The young do...

Pearl Buck: The young do...

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it, generation after...

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Lewis Carroll: The rule is,...

Lewis Carroll: The rule is,...

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday -- but never jam today.

Source: The...

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Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing...

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Margaret Walker: When I was...

Margaret Walker: When I was...

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a...

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Grace Murray Hopper: From then on,...

Grace Murray Hopper: From then on,...

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

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Charles Simmons: He who wants...

Charles Simmons: He who wants...

He who wants to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. Life is made up of little things. True...

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Peter Medawar: Today the world...

Peter Medawar: Today the world...

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young...

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Auguste Renoir: The work of...

Auguste Renoir: The work of...

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist...

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Isaac Asimov: No sensible decision...

Isaac Asimov: No sensible decision...

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as...

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Eugene Wigner: The Unreasonable Effectiveness...

Eugene Wigner: The Unreasonable Effectiveness...

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

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Niels Bohr: A physicist is...

Niels Bohr: A physicist is...

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Source: From Charades, an...

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Peter Nivio Zarlenga: What is a...

Peter Nivio Zarlenga: What is a...

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what...

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: A chair is...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: A chair is...

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is...

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Philip Johnson: Architects are pretty...

Philip Johnson: Architects are pretty...

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but...

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Richard Buckminster Fuller: A problem adequately...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: A problem adequately...

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.

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John Burroughs: Some men are...

John Burroughs: Some men are...

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at...

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Amelia Earhart: I want to...

Amelia Earhart: I want to...

I want to do it because I want to do it.

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury of...

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Thomas Henry Huxley: Every great advance...

Thomas Henry Huxley: Every great advance...

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

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Barry Commoner: No action is...

Barry Commoner: No action is...

No action is without its side effects.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Lewis Thomas: Sometimes you get...

Lewis Thomas: Sometimes you get...

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path...

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